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TIL Bill Gates Has Donated More Than $50 billion to Charity

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woK58 TIL the phrase “you can’t handle the truth” was created/ improvised by Jack Nicholson. The movie's original screenplay boasted the line "You already have the truth," which Nicholson trimmed to "You can't handle the truth."
epN0b TIL the Great Chicago Fire wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the midwest the day it happened. The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin burned 1.2 million acres and killed anywhere from 1500 to 2500 people, five times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.
M7GoK TIL Tom Hardy reads bedtime stories for the BBC's series CBeebies
oBVPr TIL: In 1902, due to pressure from the butter industry, the U.S. government made it illegal to put yellow food coloring into margarine. This caused annual margarine consumption to drop from 54k tons to 22k tons due to the unappetizing stark white color of undyed margarine.
bGB4 TIL the Ancient Greeks had a rudimentary railway c.600B.C